[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#576812: octave3.2-headers: mkoctfile fails when blas upgraded to version 1.2-6

[Sébastien Villemot]

Package: octave3.2-headers
Version: 3.2.4-3
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

When upgrading blas to version 1.2-6, mkoctfile no longer works:
the linker cannot find -lblas-3gf.

The reason is that latest version of blas introduces a change in
the way of dealing with alternative implementations of BLAS.
In particular, the symlink /usr/lib/libblas-3gf.a has disappeared.

Note that, when upgrading blas package, this symlink is not destroyed
because of a bug in blas package [1]. But on fresh installations (and
therefore on build daemons), the libblas-3gf.a symlink is not there.

I guess the solution is to rebuild the packages for Octave 3.2 on sid.

Cheers,

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=576801


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages octave3.2-headers depends on:
ii  g++                       4:4.4.3-1      The GNU C++ compiler
ii  gcc                       4:4.4.3-1      The GNU C compiler
ii  gfortran                  4:4.4.3-1      The GNU Fortran 95 compiler
ii  libblas-dev               1.2-6          Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3
ii  libfftw3-dev              3.2.2-1        library for computing Fast Fourier
ii  libhdf5-serial-dev        1.8.4-patch1-1 Hierarchical Data Format 5 (HDF5) 
ii  liblapack-dev             3.2.1-2        library of linear algebra routines
ii  libncurses5-dev           5.7+20100313-2 developer's libraries and docs for
ii  libreadline5-dev          5.2-7          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  octave3.2                 3.2.4-3        GNU Octave language for numerical 

octave3.2-headers recommends no packages.

octave3.2-headers suggests no packages.

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